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Fwd: Organizing for Peace 2004 - Make plans now!
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cfi-@hampshire.edu
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Nov 21, 2003 09:10 PST
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I thought i would send out news of this event - Organizing for Peace
conference in March 2003 - which sounds to me worth traveling to next
spring! I was at the last two events and really energized by the
creativity and spirit there! Peace! -chris
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Widening The Circle: Peacemaking in the midst of diversity
Organizing for Peace 2004
March 11-14, 2004
La Verne, California
This event is co-sponsored by On Earth Peace, the University of La
Verne, and the La Verne Church of the Brethren.
We will gather to:
~Nurture creative responses to violence with music, art, and the spoken
word
~Explore racism, classism, and prejudice to expand our peace work
across traditional ethnic and religious boundaries
~Deepen our spiritual roots to help us stay fertile, grounded,
centered, and faithful
You will find:
~Workshops that inform and empower active peacemaking
~Art and prayer woven throughout the event
~Relationship-building across traditional boundaries
Music leadership will be provided by Church of the Brethren musicians
Steve Kinzie and Shawn Kirchner!
Confirmed leadership includes:
*Lourdes Arguelles ~ Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate
University
*Elizabeth Conde-Frazier ~ Baptist minister; Prof. of Religious
Education, Claremont School of Theology
*Matt Guynn ~ Program Staff at On Earth Peace
*Shady Hakim ~ Coord. of Middle East Peace Education Program, AFSC
Pacific Southwest Region
*James Lawson ~ Minister and key nonviolence trainer for Civil Rights
struggle
*Daniel Loerta ~ Director of Multicultural Affairs, Univerisity of La
Verne
*Ched Myers ~ Biblical scholar, urban activist and preacher
*Barb Sayler ~ Co-Director of On Earth Peace
*Ali Siddiqui ~ Muslim Imam and member of the community organization
Peace with Justice
Organizing for Peace is an initiative rooted in the Church of the
Brethren Anabaptist tradition. This year's conference, held for the
first time in southern California, hopes to address the rich and growing
diversity of today's world, as well as to offer hands-on tools for
active social change among people of faith.
This a qualifying event for those in the Church of the Brethren
interested in earning one CEU.
Register online: www.brethren.org/oepa/ofp2004.html
(or contact Kim Stuckey at On Earth Peace).
On Earth Peace is an agency of the Church of the Brethren working to
empower people to discern the things that make for peace.
PO Box 188 New Windsor, MD 21776
410-635-8706 www.brethren.org/oepa
Kim Stuckey
Program Coordinator for Peacemaker Formation
On Earth Peace
500 Main Street
PO Box 188
New Windsor MD 21776
410-635-8706
kstucke-@brethren.org
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